Community-Based Health Promotion Implementation

Disseminating and implementing health promotion programs with non-clinical community partners across the globe is viewed as an important strategy for reducing health disparities and promoting health equity. Key elements for beneficial impacts include evidence-informed programs that are well-designed for their audience, respect for and integration of community members’ wisdom and knowledge, skillful use of appropriate implementation frameworks, and a long-term perspective that considers community history and plans for sustaining system change. Implementation planning, preparation, and tailored support offered within a process that builds trust among participants also contributes to success. Process evaluation helps the collaborative team pivot as necessary to continue making progress in the face of inevitable changes in outer and inner settings where implementation takes place. The goal of this Research Topic is to encourage exchange of reflections on community-engaged research projects focused on implementation of health promotion programs that did not achieve all their aims, ones that were very successful, and ones with mixed results. We are interested in learning about how the programs were planned, how relationships were developed, unanticipated challenges as well as fortuitous events that affected implementation outcomes. We are particularly interested in learning how researchers negotiated and navigated research within constraints of academic institutional and funders’ requirements, while maximizing involvement and autonomy of community members. What unexpected outcomes did the research team observe? What changes do they plan or recommend for future efforts to implement health promotion programs with community partners? How can the work contribute to public health policy?Suitable themes for manuscripts include, but are not limited to:• Sub theme 1: Developing and sustaining relationships with community partners for implementing health promotion programs• Sub theme 2: Adapting evidence-based programs to various community settings• Sub theme 3: Collaborating with community members in conducting research about program implementation • Sub theme 4: Building capacity of community organizations and their members to sustain health promotion programsTopic Editor Dr. Joseph Astorino Nicola is the founder of the consulting company The Genius Loci Collaboratory. The other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regard to the Research Topic subject. Topic editors: Rebecca Selove, Sanjoy Saha, Wilna Oldewage-Theron, Joseph Astorino Nicola Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/80396/community-based-health-promotion-implementation